Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] of their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if anyone else believes that all that 's consumed in the Sedgefield council chairman 's room is tea and biscuits they must be stoned out of their tiny little brains . |
| 2 | Goody suggests that written language has two main functions : the first is the storage function which permits communication over time and space , and the second is that which ‘ shifts language from the oral to the visual domain' and permits words and sentences to be examined out of their original contexts , ‘ where they appear in a very different and highly ‘ abstract ’ context' ( 1977 : 78 ) . |
| 3 | However , it is enough to point out that there are similarities between the ‘ overpopulation ’ view and the view that farmers and pastoralists should be educated out of their ignorant , lethargic and traditional ways . |
| 4 | They enclose all pastures ; they throw down houses ; they pluck down towns , and leaving nothing standing but only the church to be made into a sheep-house … the husbandmen be thrust out of their own , or else by covin and fraud or by violent oppression they be put besides it , or by wrongs and injuries they be so wearied , that they be compelled to sell all . |
| 5 | I hope that he and other members of the Labour party will eventually be talked out of their past commitment to mixed ability teaching at all levels , for , as the three wise men have confirmed , that is not suitable for delivering the broad and balanced curriculum at which the Government are aiming . |
| 6 | He dreamed of a society where there would be no capitalist bosses ; no unemployment ; with food ; housing and medical services for all ; where old women would not be thrown out of their lifelong homes to make way for richer tenants and children would never go hungry . |
| 7 | ‘ If they close , 60 vulnerable people will be forced out of their own homes and away from their friends ’ , Bayley says . |